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Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias El Viceroy (born 1962), Mexican drug trafficker who led the Juárez Cartel from 1997 after his brother Amado's death until his 2014 arrest; sentenced in Mexico to 28 years and extradited to the United States in February 2025.
Vicente Zambada Niebla
Vicente Zambada Niebla, alias El Vicentillo, son of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael El Mayo Zambada, was the cartel's logistics coordinator, arrested in 2009, extradited 2010, pleaded guilty in Chicago in 2013, and became a key cooperating witness against El Chapo, receiving a 15-year sentence in 2019 and release in 2021.
Vicki Miles-LaGrange
Vicki Miles-LaGrange, born in 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior U.S. district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Victim blaming
Victim blaming, also called blaming the victim, is the tendency to hold victims of negative events responsible for those outcomes. Rooted in victim precipitation theory, studied mainly in sexual assault, driven by rape myths, just world belief, and defensive attribution.
Victim impact statement
Victim impact statement (VIS): a written or oral statement by a crime victim describing emotional, physical, and financial harm, considered at sentencing in US, Canadian, UK, and Australian courts; effect on sentences is empirically inconclusive.
Victimisation
Victimisation (victimization) is the experience of being harmed by crime and the study object of victimology. Covers victimology's postwar origins, victimization surveys and the hidden figure of crime, repeat victimization, and the victims' rights movement.
Victimization survey
Victimization survey: population survey asking people about crimes they experienced in a period, whether or not reported to police. Includes the US NCVS (1972, ~240,000 respondents), ICVS, dark figure measurement, and comparison with police-recorded crime data.
Victimology
Victimology is the scientific study of crime victims and victimization, coined by Benjamin Mendelsohn in 1947 and developed by Hans von Hentig; early victim-precipitation work drew feminist criticism and shaped critical victimology and victimization surveys.
Victims' rights movement
Victims' rights movement: US social and legal reform movement from the 1960s-1970s giving crime victims rights, services, and a voice in criminal proceedings, via compensation programs, VOCA, state constitutional amendments, Marsy's Law, and victim impact statements.
Victor A. Bolden
Victor A. Bolden is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Connecticut since 2015, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Victor Amuso
Victor (Vittorio) "Vic" Amuso, also known as "Jesse", boss of the Lucchese crime family from late 1986, led it with Anthony Casso, was captured in Scranton in 1991, and is serving life sentences for RICO racketeering and murder.
Victor Lustig
Victor Lustig, self-styled "Count," was a con man born (claimed) 1890 in Hostinné, Bohemia, who sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap twice in 1925, ran the money-box and Al Capone cons, and died on Alcatraz in 1947.
Víctor Manuel Gerena
Víctor Manuel Gerena, born 1958 in New York, is the Wells Fargo guard who took over $7 million from the West Hartford, Connecticut depot on September 12, 1983 for Los Macheteros, then vanished; he holds the longest FBI Ten Most Wanted tenure, 32 years.
Victor Marrero
Victor Marrero, born in 1941 in Puerto Rico, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Clinton in 1999.
Victor Martinez Hernandez
Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, Salvadoran national, convicted 2025 of the 2023 rape and murder of Rachel Morin on Maryland's Ma & Pa Trail; identified by DNA genealogy, arrested in Tulsa, sentenced to life plus 40 years.
Victoria Cilliers
Victoria Cilliers, British physiotherapist and skydiving instructor, survived her husband Emile Cilliers' 2015 sabotage of her main and reserve parachutes at Netheravon; he received a life sentence, minimum 18 years, in 2018.
Victoria M. Calvert
Victoria M. Calvert, born 1981, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 2022, nominated by President Biden.
Victoria River Downs Station
Victoria River Downs Station (VRD) is a famed Northern Territory cattle station, leased in 1879 to Fisher and Lyons, stocked in 1883 with 20,000 cattle, and once the world's largest cattle station at 90,650 km2.
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is a super tribunal in Victoria, Australia, established in 1998 to consolidate 14 boards, with decisions that can be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations is a multilateral treaty adopted in Vienna in 1963 that codifies the rules for consular posts and consular immunity, with 183 parties.
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961)
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) is the multilateral treaty governing diplomatic missions, adopted at Vienna in 1961 and in force since 1964 with 193 parties.
Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts
The Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts is a 1983 treaty that has never entered into force.
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), adopted 22 May 1969 and in force 27 January 1980, codifies treaty law between states; 119 parties, with Articles 31–32 on interpretation recognized as customary international law.
Vietnamese criminal underworld
Vietnamese criminal underworld: diaspora gangs and crime networks, notably New York's Born to Kill gang founded by David Thai (1988-1992), plus Vietnam-based transnational fraud and scam-compound networks.
Vigilantism
Vigilantism: individuals or groups pursuing justice themselves when formal institutions are perceived to have failed. Covers traditional mob justice, digital vigilantism on TikTok and Twitter, and survey evidence on who supports it.
Vigilantism in the United States
Vigilantism in the United States: unauthorized civilian force to punish or prevent crime. Also called vigilance committees or 'regulators.' Began 1767 in South Carolina; spans San Francisco 1851/1856, racialized lynching, and modern armed border patrols.
Vijaya Gadde
Vijaya Gadde, Indian-born American corporate lawyer; Twitter chief legal officer 2018–2022 (general counsel from 2013), oversaw trust and safety; Wilson Sonsini and Juniper before; boards include Guardant Health, Mercy Corps.
Vikas Dubey (विकास दुबे)
Vikas Dubey (विकास दुबे), Kanpur gangster and history-sheeter with 62 criminal cases; his gang killed 8 policemen in the July 2020 Bikru ambush; he was arrested in Ujjain and died in a 10 July 2020 police encounter later given a clean chit by the Chauhan inquiry commission.
Viktor Bout (Виктор Анатольевич Бут)
Viktor Bout (Виктор Бут, Merchant of Death) is a Russian ex-military translator turned international arms trafficker, convicted in the US in 2011 for a DEA sting deal with FARC, sentenced to 25 years, and swapped for Brittney Griner in December 2022; he now sits as an LDPR deputy in Ulyanovsk Oblast.
Viktor Medvedchuk (Віктор Володимирович Медведчук)
Viktor Medvedchuk (Віктор Володимирович Медведчук), born 1954, Ukrainian lawyer, oligarch, and pro-Russian politician; head of Presidential Administration 2002–05, Opposition Platform co-chair, charged with treason, exchanged to Russia in 2022, stripped of citizenship in 2023.